Telecom Vendors

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), announced three new additions to the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600 and 400 tiers – the Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 Mobile Platforms.

Area 2071, the physical embodiment of the UAE Centennial 2071 Plan, has announced that it will be collaborating with global technology company SAP on innovations to help inspire creative minds and fuel digital government.

A number of prominent politicians form the US House of Representatives and US Senate have written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai urging him to sever all ties with Chinese telecommunications behemoth Huawei over its alleged threat to national security.

Nokia and T-Mobile today announced a major milestone in delivering true mobile 5G with the successful completion of the nation's first bi-directional over-the-air 5G data session on a 3GPP-compliant 5G New Radio (NR) system in T-Mobile's Bellevue lab. The test was successfully conducted with a user equipment simulator and Nokia's 3GPP-compliant high-capacity 5G solution in the 28 GHz band.

Nokia has completed a live network trial in Poland in collaboration with Orange to validate the benefits of cloud-optimized radio access networks for the smooth evolution to next-generation 5G technologies.

iBwave announced the release of the latest version of its flagship product - iBwave Design Suite. The new and improved iBwave Suite contains all the powerful features that make it the standard for in-building wireless network design, plus new leading-edge capabilities to easily design high-density venues and leverage new and emerging technologies like LTE-Advanced, LAA, and CBRS.

Huawei released the Intent-Driven IP WAN solution at the 2018 international consumer electronics information and communications expo (CEBIT 2018) held in Hannover, Germany. This solution effectively copes with the requirements for simpler and more intelligent WANs in the cloud-based transformation process of enterprises, provides fast service provisioning, and enables fault locating and rectification in seconds.

No one can deny the fast-paced digital transformation in the Middle East; countries in the region are rapidly putting strategies into place to accommodate their digitalization agendas. Within the next 12 years, the revenue investments in artificial intelligence are expected to reach $15 trillion and would contribute nearly AED 1.15 trillion to the GCC region's economic development.